Social Worker - Front Door Team

Liquidpersonnel; Redbridge; On-site; CAD 101,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free DBS and compliance service

Faster Pay service

Refer a Friend bonus

Job summary

Liquid Personnel is seeking a Social Worker for its Front Door Team in Redbridge. The role focuses on assessing vulnerable adults, arranging services, and promoting prevention, independence, and choice in care plans.

You will work in a multi-agency setting, manage risk, and support carers. Eligibility includes Social Work England registration, UK work status, and a UK driving licence.

Qualifications

• Social Work England registration required.
• Full UK driving licence essential and eligible to work in the UK.
• Post-qualified experience in social care or related field.
• Degree in Social Work or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial assessments for service users and carers to identify needs and outcomes.
• Provide immediate support to adults in crisis to stabilise situations.
• Develop and implement care plans promoting independence and recovery.
• Link service users to community-based services to enhance wellbeing.
• Collaborate with multi-agency teams for seamless care.
• Involve service users and carers in planning using personal budgets and Direct Payments.
• Adhere to risk management and safeguarding procedures.
• Review service users to reflect needs and outcomes.

Education

Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Social Work England registration

Full UK driving licence

Eligible to work in the UK

Post-qualified experience

Job description

Job Title: Social Worker - Front Door TeamLocation: Redbridge
Pay Rate: £32.66 per hour

Job Description:

Liquid Personnel is hiring aSocial Worker for its client'sFront Door Team inRedbridge.

The role involves working as a care management social worker to assess the needs of vulnerable adults and their carers, and to arrange services that meet identified needs and outcomes. Promoting prevention, independence, self-directed support, choice, and control is central to the role. Key responsibilities also include risk management, safeguarding, and providing case management for adults requiring frequent specialist intervention.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Conduct timely and proportionate initial assessments of service users and their carers to identify their needs and desired outcomes.
• Provide immediate support and intervention to adults in crisis to stabilize their situation and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Develop and implement individualized care plans that promote independence and recovery, linking service users to community-based services that enhance personal wellbeing.
• Work as part of multi-agency teams to provide seamless health and social care services, ensuring effective communication and coordination.
• Involve service users and carers in creative support planning, encouraging choice and control through the use of personal budgets, including Direct Payments as the default position.
• Collaborate with Community Development Staff to help service users access community-based services and resources.
• Adhere to risk management and adult safeguarding procedures in social work practice.
• Conduct assessments and reviews of service users to a high standard, ensuring they reflect the needs and outcomes of the service user and carer.

Benefits:

• Make a Difference:Help change the lives of adults.
• Great Team:Work with a supportive and collaborative crew.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

• Social Work England registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Why Liquid Personnel?

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and 'Faster Pay' service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren't available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid's exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• "Refer a Friend" bonus - get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• "Find your own job" bonus - get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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